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Chapter 10
PSYCH 225
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| identity versus role confusion | Erikson's term for the fifth stage of development, in which the person tries to figure out "Who am I?" but is confused as to which of many possible roles to adopt |
| identity achievement | Erikson's term for the attainment of identity, or the point at which a person understands who he or she is as a unique individual, in accord with past experiences and future plans |
| role confusion (aka identity or role diffusion) | a situation in which an adolescent does not seem to know or care what his or her identity is. |
| foreclosure | Erikson's term for premature identity formation, which occurs when an adolescent adopts his or her parent's or society's roles and values wholesale, without questioning or analysis |
| moratorium | an adolescent's choice of a socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions (i.e. going to college) |
| gender identity | a person's acceptance of the roles and behaviors that society associates with the biological categories of male and female |
| bickering | petty, peevish arguing, usually repeated and ongoing |
| parental monitoring | parents' ongoing awareness of what their children are doing, where, and with whom |
| peer pressure | encouragement to conform to one's friends or contemporaries in behavior, dress, and attitude; usually considered a negative force, as when adolescent peers encourage one another to defy adult authority |
| clique | a group of adolescents made up of close friends who are loyal to one another while excluding others |
| crowd | a larger group of adolescents who have something in common, but who are not necessarily friends |
| deviancy training | destructive peer support in which one person shows another how to rebel against authority or social norms |
| sexual orientation | a term that refers to whether a person is sexually and romantically attracted to others of the same sex, the opposite sex, or both sexes |
| child sexual abuse | any erotic activity arouses an adult and excites, shames, or confuses a child, whether or not the victim protests and whether or not genital contact is involved |
| sexually transmitted infection (STI) | an infection spread by sexual contact; includes syphilis, gonorrhea, genital herpes, chlamydia, and HIV |
| familism | the belief that family members should support one another, sacrificing individual freedom and success, if necessary, in order to preserve family unity and protect the family from outside forces |
| clinical depression | feelings of hopelessness, lethargy, and worthlessness that last two weeks or more |
| rumination | repeatedly thinking and talking about past experiences; can contribute to depression |
| suicidal ideation | thinking about suicide, usually with some serious emotional and intellectual or cognitive overtones |
| parasuicide (aka attempted suicide or failed suicide) | any potentially lethal action against the self that does not result in death |
| cluster suicides | several suicides committed by members of a group within a brief period |
| life-course-persistent offender | a person whose criminal activity typically begins in early adolescence and continues throughout life; a career criminal |
| adolescence-limited offender | a person whose criminal activity stops by age 21 |
| generational forgetting | the idea that each new generation forgets what the previous generation learned |
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